Spanish League

The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera Divisin,[a] commonly known as the Primera Divisin[b], or LaLiga,[2] and officially LALIGA EA SPORTS[c][3] since 2023 for sponsorship reasons, is the top men's professional football division of the Spanish football league system. Administered by Liga Nacional de Ftbol Profesional, it is contested by 20 teams.

According to UEFA's league coefficient rankings, La Liga has been the top league in Europe in each of the seven years from 2013 to 2019 (calculated using accumulated figures from five preceding seasons) and has led Europe for 22 of the 60 ranked years up to 2019, more than any other country. It has also produced the continent's top-rated club more times (22) than any other league in that period, more than double that of second-placed Serie A (Italy), including the top club in 10 of the 11 seasons between 2009 and 2019; each of these pinnacles was achieved by either Barcelona or Real Madrid. La Liga clubs have won the most UEFA Champions League (19), UEFA Europa League (14), UEFA Super Cup (16) and FIFA Club World Cup (8) titles, and its players have accumulated the highest number of Ballon d'Or awards (24), The Best FIFA Men's Player awards (19)[d] and UEFA Men's Player of the Year awards (12).[e]

Spanish League

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A system of promotion and relegation exists between the Primera Divisin and the Segunda Divisin. The three lowest placed teams in La Liga are relegated to the Segunda Divisin, and the top two teams from the Segunda Divisin promoted to La Liga, with an additional club promoted after a series of play-offs involving the third, fourth, fifth and sixth placed clubs. Below is a complete record of how many teams played in each season throughout the league's history;

In April 1928, Jos Mara Acha, a director at Getxo, first proposed the idea of a national league in Spain. After much debate about the size of the league and who would take part, the Real Federacin Espaola de Ftbol eventually agreed on the ten teams who would form the first Primera Divisin in 1929. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic Club, Real Sociedad, Getxo, and Real Unin were all selected as previous winners of the Copa del Rey. Atltico Madrid, Espanyol, and Europa qualified as Copa del Rey runners-up and Racing de Santander qualified through a knockout competition. Only three of the founding clubs (Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Athletic Club) have never been relegated from the Primera Divisin.

In 2023, La Liga rebranded itself with a new logo and new sponsor. EA (Electronic Arts) replaced the Spanish financial services giant Santander that was the title sponsor of the league for seven years. LaLiga EA Sports and LaLiga Hypermotion are the names of the Primera and Segunda Divisions, starting in the 2023-24 season and for the following four seasons.[32]

The Primera Divisin is currently second in the UEFA rankings of European leagues based on their performances in European competitions over a five-year period, behind England's Premier League, but ahead of Italy's Serie A and Germany's Bundesliga.

In 2015, La Liga became the first league to enter five teams in the Champions League group stage, with Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atltico Madrid and Valencia qualifying via their league position and Sevilla qualifying by virtue of their victory in the Europa League, courtesy of a rule change.

I just started playing ranked on LAN and it's frustrating not being able to tell people stuff past the basics. Can someone compile a list of the most common league terms and how they say it in spanish? Playing broken telephone with other teammates or having to rely on google translate 20x a game to get my point across makes the game that much harder.

The RFEF allows reserve teams to compete in the main league system, as is the case in most European domestic leagues. However, reserve teams are not allowed to compete in the same tier as their senior team, and no reserve team has thus competed in the top flight.

Almost everyone who has tried to evaluate distances in Spanish colonial North America from sixteenth-century documents has experienced the many frustrations of transferring Spanish colonial leagues to specific geographic distances on the ground (or, for that matter, at sea). The length of the leagues mentioned varies widely, especially where travel distances are concerned. One reason lies in the varying distance estimates attributed by explorers and chroniclers when they roughly transformed subjective travel times into ground distances covered. In New Spain, these estimates were affected by the great diversity of terrain the chroniclers encountered, particularly in parts of Mexico and Guatemala. But a second reason is that, in the sixteenth century, they used one of two specific and different land leagues : the legua legal, or statute league, and the legua comn, or common league. Unfortunately, a given reporter does not usually specify which league is meant, and since most official documents refer to the legua legal, many scholars, including such eminent ones as Woodbury Lowery, have tended to assume that the statute league was the only one employed in New Spain.1 If the use of the legua comn can be demonstrated in New Spain in the sixteenth century, however, then measurement by the legua legal to calculate distances mentioned in documents and old maps may be shown to be clearly inappropriate.

In sixteenth-century Castile, both leagues were used to measure distances. The legua legal was primarily employed in juridical matters such as the granting of large tracts of land. The legua comn, an older and more general measure, was used to indicate distances over which one traveled. The simultaneous use of both leagues proved troublesome, however, and in 1587 the legua legal, so important in Spanish North America as an official land measure, was declared illegal in Castile itself in favor of the more traditional and popular legua comn.2 Therefore, it is safe to assume that, since both leagues were used in Spain throughout most of the sixteenth century, both leagues were employed in New Spain as well.

The metric equivalents of the two leagues differed considerably, as did their definitions. The legua legal was 3 Castilian miles long, but its principal legal definition in the sixteenth century was that it contained 5,000 varas of 3 Castilian feet apiece.3 The metric value of the legua legal depended on the length of the vara, but can be considered as 4.19 0.05 kilometers.4 On the other hand, the legua comn was 4 Castilian miles long; its metric equivalent is usually 5.572 0.02 kilometers.5 The linear difference of over 1 kilometer between the leagues could explain many of the discrepancies between sixteenth-century reports and maps, and their geographic manifestations today.

So far as I am aware, the legua comn was never used as the basis for areal measurements in New Spain. The league referred to in legal documents relating to land or grazing rights, for example, seems always to have been the legua legal. Where a grant was sufficiently large, the legua legal was supposed to form the basis not only of its dimensions, but also its shape. However, patterns of land tenure in New Spain, as elsewhere, are often extremely complex when viewed in legal or historical perspective, and particularly so if wide variations in terrain, native population density, and prior tenurial conditions are taken into account. As a result of these and other factors, mercedes identified in leagues ended up assuming an almost infinite variety of geometric forms.

It appears, however, that land grant regulations were applied rather differentially throughout New Spain. In Yucatn they seem to have been fairly consistently followed where possible. In a study of fourteen haciendas in that region, I found that at least six, and probably eight, initially consisted of a square league of 5,000 by 5,000 varas; the six were generally, if not precisely, oriented as prescribed by law.13 These grants were usually described, also in accordance with the law, as extending 2,500 varas in each cardinal direction, measured from a given central point (in Yucatn, the noria or well). Errors in surveying and the lack of precise knowledge of the extent of surrounding properties often modified the ideal orientation, shape, and even size of the grant, as did of course subsequent land acquisition, sales, trades, and litigation.14 On the other hand, in the Parral district of northern New Spain, and probably in many other areas as well, the regulations were usually not observed, and the system of metes and bounds was commonly employed to designate property boundaries. The shapes of sitios in those areas were thus very irregular, with many being roughly polygonic, while others were more or less quadrilateral.15

Grants of this size and larger were generally located in semiarid or arid zones of sparse population. In areas where surface water was at a premium and if conditions warranted it, the shape of some grants was a rectangle, as indeed the official designation of an hacienda (comprising 1 by 5 leagues, or 5,000 by 25,000 varas) suggests.16 Usually, the smaller side of a grant of this shape was located along a river and its waters could thereby be made available to more properties. However, an hacienda of 5 square leagues did not necessarily have to be laid out in a one-by-five-league format; an equal area could be provided by a grant measuring half a league by ten. Further, in many cases the extent of land from a given reference point or line was adjusted for variations in the quality of land if very poor or total wasteland covered much of the area of the proposed grant. Also, the backlands of a grant might not be surveyed for years after initial settlement since these areas were relatively unimportant and there was little competition for them.

Grants defined in terms of leagues in New Spain were designed for private cattle grazing and commonly allotted on an individual basis, but grants of a square league of common land (ejido) were also provided to many Indian villages for grazing purposes. Many of these ejidos were granted later in the colonial period, or in areas of relatively high population density, in order to correct earlier injustices resulting from encroachment of Spanish lands on Indian towns.17 Under such circumstances, grants could take any shape although they too were supposed to be square. Again, an ejido might consist of a square league in area, but this did not necessarily mean that the grant was a square piece of land, or even a rectangle; it could simply refer to an area of 25,000,000 square varas, or 1,747.24 hectares (about 4,318.2 acres). The legua cuadrada was a square league, but not always a league square. 17dc91bb1f